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Hace 2 días · Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave the famous "Wind of Change" speech in South Africa in February 1960, where he spoke of "the wind of change blowing through this continent". Macmillan urgently wanted to avoid the same kind of colonial war that France was fighting in Algeria.
Hace 5 días · Dr Kevin Ruane, review of Kennedy, Europe and the Cold War, (review no. 341) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/341. Date accessed: 14 May, 2024. In October 1957, at the close of bilateral talks in Washington, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan issued a joint Declaration of Common Purpose ...
Hace 4 días · Finally, discussions of Anthony Eden’s Another World: 1897–1917 and the first volume of Harold Macmillan’s Winds of Change, 1914–1939, like those of Carrington’s 1965, Chapman’s 1975 and Reith’s 1966 memoirs, further highlight the complex nature of the war’s ‘end’ in the minds of servicemen, providing Bond with greater latitude to address the war’s legacy as something ...
Hace 5 días · Yet, it is with his discussion of Harold Macmillan’s attempt at a ‘Middle Way’ in the volatile 1930s that Dorey’s research strengths come into their own. Macmillan offered the first substantive consideration of a government role in the economy, ...
Hace 1 día · Under the leadership of Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Alec Douglas-Home, the Conservative Party came to accept the key tenets of the “postwar consensus” with Labour—that is, it recognized the state’s responsibility for maintaining full employment and endorsed the use of techniques of economic-demand ...
Hace 2 días · In 1960, Hugh Trevor-Roper arranged for then-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to run for the post in order to save Oxford from the “solemn, pompous, dreary, respectable Times-reading world which hates elections (indeed, hates life)”. Today, Macmillan would be barred from the higher office: the broadsheet-reading election haters finally won.
Hace 5 días · Anthony Wilson-Smith, President & CEO, Historica Canada. The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada, John Ibbitson. Even by the standards of today’s testy era, where personal animosity between opposing party leaders seems more the rule than the exception, John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson were a study in extremes. The ...
